Location: 405 Schermerhorn

Theme: A forum for discussing research on cognitive topics, including perception, reasoning, memory, language, movement, and AI.

Contact: Please send comments or questions to or

September 17

• Organizational Meeting

September 24

• Jeremy Gray, Yale University- "Self Control and intelligence: What's the relation?"
  

October 1

• Walter Mischel & Ethan Kross, Columbia University- "Cognitive-Affective Processes Underlying Willpower and Emotion Regulation"
  

October 8

• Jason Zevin, Weill Medical College of Cornell University- "Learning and Limits on Adult Plasticity for Speech"
  

October 15

• Jason Buhle, Columbia University- "The volitional, cognitive regulation of affect: Some preliminary findings from meta-analysis of reappraisal studies"
  

October 22

• Michael Serra, Columbia University- "How do diagrams increase the retention and understanding of science text and information"

October 29

• Academic Holiday

November 5

• David Hardisty, Columbia University- "Temporal discounting of environmental outcomes"

November 12

• Mauricio Delgado, Rutgers- "Aversive conditioning with secondary re-enforcers: Fear of losing money?"

November 19

• Jin Fan, Mt. Sinai- "Attentional Networks and Top-down Attentional Control"

November 26

• Holly Lisanby, Columbia University- "Non-invasive brain stimulation in the modulation of cognition: Basic and Clinical Applications"

December 3

• David Amodio, NYU- "Implicit stereotyping and evaluation: From brain to behavior"

December 17

• Liz Phelps, NYU- "Changing Learned Fears"

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Spring 2008

January 28

• Hakwan Lau, Columbia University, "Rejecting the metacognitive ability account of consciousness: a case-study of blindsight patient"
  

February 4

• Nathaniel Daw, NYU, "Semi-rational models to decision making; Exploration and credit assignment"

February 11

• Bernd Figner, Columbia University, "Affective and deliberative processes in risky choice: Accounting for age differences in risk taking"

February 18

• Malia Mason, Columbia University, "Wandering Minds"

February 25

• Gary Marcus, NYU, "Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind"
  

March 3

• TBA
  

March 10

• Daphna Shohamy, Columbia University, "Learning and generalizing: How different forms of memory guide decisions and actions"

March 17

• No meeting - SPRING BREAK

March 24

• Lynn Hasher, University of Toronto, "Distraction Regulation and Cognition"
  

March 31

• Roberto Cabeza, Duke University, "Neural Mechanisms of Recollection and Familiarity"

April 7

• Brent Field, Princeton University, "The attention-enjoyment link: How distraction affects brain structures that mediate hedonic value"

April 14

• John Black, Teachers College, "Learning from Video Games?"
  

April 21

• Reserved for Masters’ talks

April 28

• Reserved for Masters’ talks

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